Erich von Stroheim, original name Erich Oswald Stroheim,
(born September 22, 1885, Vienna, Austria—died May 12, 1957, near Paris, France),
one of the most critically respected motion-picture directors of the 20th century,
best known for the uncompromising realism and accuracy of detail in his films.
So on Foolish Wives, Stroheim began to scatter more than a million dollars. The film was set in Monte Carlo, and he told Universal to build it anew with palaces and plazas on the Californian coast, and make it lavish.
most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era.
His 1924 film Greed (an adaptation of Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague) is considered one of the finest and most important films ever made.
